Vickey A. Beaver: Creative and Hospitable Individual

Writing

While I am working with Savage Mojo, formerly Talisman Studios, to write a second adventure toolkit for their Relic setting in the Suzerain Universe using their Mojo Rules! system, as well as a co-writing project for the use of their world with Savage Worlds' game rules, Caladon Falls, I still have other endeavors I am pursuing. I continue to write short stories, short shorts, poems, random acts of babbling, and slowly, ever so slowly, progress Shadowline, a fantasy novel I started more than a handful of years ago. I also am putting together queries for other RPG (Role-playing Game) companies. Savage Mojo has a few things to say about my efforts. See their comments on my page off the Mojo Family page. You can keep an eye on the Suzerain Mojo Rules development blog and the Savage Worlds Suzerain development blog, too! And if you don't know what an RPG is, see the entry for RPG at Wikipedia and related information on my gaming page.

Just a note: I only include a few samples so that there are no copyright complications when I submit my otherwise unpublished work for pay.

Poetry

Resources

Stories

Tips

Writers' Group

After being a playtester in the Relic realm of Suzerain, a setting using Mojo Rules! by Savage Mojo (formerly Talisman Studios), I got the chance to write for the company. We tested a published adventure toolkit (AKA module), Bitter Fumes. I was offered to write the next adventure toolkit, The Ratten Wakes, which is meant to be second in a set of three books. There are tentative plans to link it to another trilogy, which is unwritten and would take place in the earlier age. I finished The Ratten Wakes in September of 2009. After several unforeseeable delays, it's scheduled for release in June of this year.

Other things on the horizon:

I am in a writing team with Steve Dean on a book in the Relic realm of Suzerain but using Savage World's to power it. There are plans for two more following its pending 2010 release.
I have four articles to write in the next few months for Polymancer Studios.
I've got an article I pledged to do for a church I toured in England.
I've been invited to write an article for Long Ridge Writers Group.
After the Savage Worlds book, I'll go back to Mojo Rules! and complete the trilogy.
Following the completion of the Mojo Rules! trilogy, I'll return to Savage Worlds, working on the second book in that trilogy, hopefully with the same team as the first one.

Related, but more distant:

I completed a bound volume, Feathered Time, for consideration for exhibit in the Cornell Council for the Arts Foundation's Emerging Artists Exhibition scheduled for September 2004. While my work was not chosen, I am exploring means of getting the anthology of fantasy poems and short stories published.

Others will be added as it makes sense to do so.

Resources (links will open new windows)

www.writersmarket.com - offers a searchable database of potential publications, agents, and more

www.writersonlineworkshops.com - a variety of workshops to improve your writing and career

www.writersdigest.com - offers articles and insight about the writing craft

www.writers.net - puts you in touch with other writers, editors, agents, and publishers through articles and chats

www.dictionary.com - type in a word and this site cross-references multiple dictionaries to bring you pronunciation, part of speech, definition, origin, AND real-life quotes illustrating the usage of the word in question; cross-links to sites for translations, writing tools, and more; also has a paid service with additional features

www.thesaurus.com - one of the cross-linked sites from dictionary.com, this tool is an abbreviation of Roget's; it's great for quick-hits and common words, but there are tools in the print version that can't be beat...yet

www.amazon.com - to order those necessary printed items that you can't find in entirety online, like Roget's Thesaurus

www.barnesandnoble.com - in case you prefer B & N

www.borders.com - for those who favor Borders

www.xlibris.com - if you don't want to put your writing aspirations in the hands of an overworked editor, Xlibris offers an alternative: print on demand. This is NOT a vanity press where in order to get published you have to buy books and attempt to sell them. See the site for full details and special offers. This is also great for people who just want to publish something for themselves or family and friends.

www.chicagomanualofstyle.org - when you just can't quite decide what the rule or guideline is for a stylistic issue

www.longridgewritersgroup.com - when what you really want is a class to teach you the basics of breaking into print

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